Witness flags whistleblower protections to ‘balance’ AI security and transparency

A key witness at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing pointed to whistleblower protections for employees of AI developers as an important way lawmakers might seek to reconcile a need for visibility into AI systems with concerns over intellectual property protection stoked by competitive pressures from China.

The May 7 hearing of the Judiciary courts, intellectual property and AI subcommittee follows the Chinese developer DeepSeek releasing a model that rivals U.S. companies’ amid accusations of intellectual property theft and broadening...